HBO Developing 'The Birds' Limited Series Adaptation Starring Sarah Snook
Sarah Snook stars as a mother probing a disappearance while deadly bird attacks and a murder mystery drive the reimagined thriller.
- HBO has officially acquired a limited series adaptation of "The Birds," starring Emmy-winning Succession actor Sarah Snook in the lead role.
- Writer and executive producer Tom Spezialy is developing the project alongside David Heyman of Heyday Television, crafting a "visceral, present-day reimagining" of Hitchcock's classic.
- Set in Alaska, the series follows Myra Massey, a magistrate returning home to investigate a childhood friend's disappearance while facing inexplicable bird attacks.
- Universal Global Television is co-producing the series with HBO, while Universal Pictures and the Du Maurier Estate retain rights to the title.
- The project marks the latest effort to adapt the 1952 Daphne du Maurier novella, following failed attempts in 2007 and 2017 to bring the story to screen.
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Sarah Snook to lead HBO limited series based on The Birds
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HBO Lands Sarah Snook-Led "The Birds"
HBO has landed the upcoming new limited series take on “The Birds” which was first reported back in May. Emmy-winning “Succession” star Sarah Snook is set to star in the project dubbed a “visceral, present-day reimagining” of both the original Daphne du Maurier gothic horror novella and the very loose film adaptation by Alfred Hitchcock […]
Hitchcock's The Birds to fly again as an HBO limited series starring Sarah Snook
One major criticism still thrown at Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic, The Birds, is simple. It’s too short! Two hours of a San Francisco socialite being mysteriously pursued and clawed by winged beasts wasn’t enough. Not even the 1994 made-for-TV sequel The Birds II: Land’s End could quell viewers’ avian flu. Finally, the fine folks at the Home Box Office have heard your squawks, and they’ve got a whole limited series starring Sarah Snook to sati…
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